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When life hands you a lemon, make Lemonade.Life did just that. I had an audition a few weeks ago, at the Director’s house. Long story short, he had a lemon tree that was growing grapefruit-sized lemons and an assistant gave one to me. I brought it home and made lemonade.If you don’t know of anybody with a lemon tree or don’t have a fruit stand nearby, you can get one from craigslist. A Lemon Tree not a lemon.
Or this one, they are both free just, go get them.

Simple recipe, for simple lemonade.
Juice of Large Lemon
14 oz. of water
2 TBS of cane sugar

Mix water, sugar, and lemon juice until dissolved. You can also heat up half the water with the sugar to make dissolving easier.

Add Ice to chill, and a sprig of mint for garnish.
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I am going to interrupt my series on Asian night, to bring you a guest blog post by none other than my mother. Momma Fran as she is known to my peers, could always be heard at athletic events as the one concerned mother yelling, don’t you push him Number #22, I have my eyes on you… Also, she has an infectious laugh that can be heard anywhere around Hendersonville. Theater productions seek her out for Dress Rehearsals to give the actors confidence before opening night. More importantly though, she has been a huge inspiration and supporter in my culinary exploits. I think it started with my blueberry muffin stand on the side of the road that my brother and I had, she of course made sure we never burned ourselves or the muffins. So, without further ado, I present to you, Momma Fran in her food blog debut.<a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7AxTlvbUylY/SKNT7MDUPJI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/eKlXeSaDg7U/s16…

Tucked away in a tiny strip mall, in Silver Lake, Pho Cafe is a hidden gem. The only Vietnamese restaurant I have to compare it to, is Lime and Basil in Chapel Hill, NC. Pho Cafe, is just as tasty, while cheaper. This wasn’t my first attempt at eating here. The first time, Scrumptious, Joe and I were in a time rush, and figured Pho Cafe would be a quick place to eat. If we hadn’t spent 30 minutes looking for it, then I think we would have been fine. If you call them, they say, we are near the liquor store, and are the ones without a sign. On this strip of sunset, there are 4 liquor stores within sight. Once we had found it, there wasn’t enough time, and we put it off for another day.

Back to the day at hand. Three of us again ventured to Pho Cafe. After a quick 10 minute wait, we had menus in hand and were sitting down. I ordered a Beef Pho,<a href=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_7AxTlvbUylY/SIQeitDJZZI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/S7mlAKnG6Ds/…

I must warn you this is a long post. If you aren’t in to reading novels, then scroll down for the pretty picture, and be on your way. End disclaimer.

I promised I would tell the story of my day with Air Tran, yes it turned out to be an entire day, 21 hours worth. In order for this to fly on the food blog though, I decided to include my meal at the airport. So, there, is where we shall begin our journey.

In a tribute to my house mate, Craig, who wrote a spec script on Pushing Daisies, and recently turned 23.
The facts were these: The Food Monster had long been hungry after surviving on a few small assorted snacks for the da…